The list comprehensions are not very hard, and are more general. EXCEPT with the limited number of occurrences. We have this for str.replace(..., max=n), and it is useful fairly often.
I'm +0.5 on .replace() with that capability. But -1 on .removeall() that adds nothing to an easy listcomp. On Sun, Oct 21, 2018, 9:01 AM Siva Sukumar Reddy <suku...@gmail.com wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am really new to Python contribution community want to propose below > methods for List object. Forgive me if this is not the format to send an > email. > > 1. *list.replace( item_to_be_replaced, new_item )*: which replaces all > the occurrences of an element in the list instead of writing a new list > comprehension in place. > 2. *list.replace( item_to_be_replaced, new_item, number_of_occurrences )*: > which replaces the occurrences of an element in the list till specific > number of occurrences of that element. The number_of_occurrences can > defaulted to 0 which will replace all the occurrences in place. > 3. *list.removeall( item_to_be_removed )*: which removes all the > occurrences of an element in a list in place. > > What do you think about these features? > Are they PEP-able? Did anyone tried to implement these features before? > Please let me know. > > Thank you, > Sukumar > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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